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be - ae - liven ** ieee tai’. ts od oe The Office of War Mobilization Director’ Jensen +: Byrnes and Stabilization Director Fred Vinson, who have j ;yielded to these disrupters and saboteurs of stabilization, and still continue to do sc, share in this responsibility. 4 Vinson’ « veto of the eight cent raise to railroad workers, : : ties, Th has allowed itself to be mechan ‘EDITORIAL lnamstrong. Poo tate mibe decision the WLB took months to find bss of more than a million members * In the a loophole for 4 formal recognition of portal to portal affiliates. in convention at Buffalo, jnmendation of their executive poard—-dunderground travel) pay, in the dusty files of the wage- ike pledge without qualification. They hour administration, but they steered clear of the more prove it as unanimously as the board flexible provision in the stabilization act itself which gives‘ in behalf of such a large segment of them and the Byrnes-Vinson offices authority to take Fwery timely and holds significance any measures necessary to aid in the prosecution of the view of the present critical moment war. The fact that coal production was falling off and in faces w= teat. manpower had been flowing out of the coal industry, was o them not a sufficient enough:reason for a ruling. t will mark another contract dead- . bt thie writing mare than &9.000._.__The decision giving the Anthracite miners the ridicu- a. SB. Fil iio Wiig MGIC Viel Ov wes } Jous raise of 82 cents a day, also because of a mathe- be with * veast : he tacit approval or matica] strait-jacket, is further evidence of the board's | p whole situation is again in the hands Loi-y, The very Jeast the WLB members could have done hy Monday, from all indications, Lewis was to join with the four labor representatives’ deman -blown general atrike of coal miners. for a change. . . . * the railroad workers are taking « bd The employers are reaponsible for the present situa qe. * ° tion by their insistence that profits go above all other pany occasions pointed to the justice of considerations. Their position dovetails perfectly with that ‘coal! miners and railroad workers. of Lewis, for neither is he interested in furthering pro- cized sharply the War Labor Board duction, placing his defeatist policy above ail other con- ati erie siderations. If the employers and Lewis were interested kuthorities for clinging to an outworn har burns. 7 eugene _ > 4m production they could have easily agreed upon a pro- djustment to enable gram that would be both an incentive to more coal output nth the cost of living rise, But we 224 to @ corresponding increase in wages—a formula mp wi € poste g that even the WLB would have te approve. ive said again and again. Such adjust- ~ Finally, the labor movement itself is not absolved of | by keeping the no-strike pledge and f Ya aniretion program, We regard responsibility ; first because of the disunity in its ranks, am as absolutely essential for we and secondly because Lewis. utilizing this disunity, is abie ! ti would be most harmful to the to cultivate some support, when every union in the coun common people in general. All adjust- should hold him up as an object of scorn. Isn't it Joh ..L, Lewis ‘who presented labor with the Smith-Conna Beet. fore be made for the purpose of atren — Aion program. ; a * o i for the failure of this program rs /. Py s- A epublicans in Congress who, jointly with Jemocrats, scuttled the administration’s | :, ( This is a clipping from ram. They have emasculated measures {7 | 4-79 -: _ page Secs of ~ Bu p? THE ‘WORKER g and at this very moment continue to {, « | Date“ = 7p ~2? Clipped a € seat © ithey engineered the notorious Rum! soak- gtam and are now scheming further steps |and greased thesigy for a Roman holiday Government | Ne am: ea . a | . ‘fine; they killed the President’s $25,000 | Sot ; aoc eel ne Ea Va